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Anna Magnani marries Anthony Quinn but finds love with his son from a previous marriage in George Cukor 's Wild Is The Wind (1958). Commandos Strike At Dawn (Original Trailer) (www.tcm.com....dtrailers/)
The fest begins Sunday (Nov. 12) with Marlon Brando in a tight T-shirt (wouldn57;t he have looked good in a forthcoming Theater Dogs T-shirt?) in A Streetcar Named Desire , probably the best stage-to-screen adaptation of any Williams work. Streetcar is in a double feature with The Fugitive Kind starring Brando, Joanne Woodward and Anna Magnani (www.ibabuzz.com....e/2006/11/)
My main reason for seeing Mamma Roma was primarily to be as complete as I can with the films of Pier Paolo Pasolini . I guess that if one is going to make a film titled Mamma Roma than the obvious star would be Anna Magnani . (www.coffeecoffeeandmorecoffee.com....s/2005/11/)
Great performances are being lauded at the Toronto Film Festival this week. Penelope Cruz (pictured left) is seeing some of the best reviews of her career for her portrayal of a housewife and mother in Pedro Almodovar57;s 60;Volver.61; Cruz57;s performance is being compared to some given decades earlier by Oscar winners Anna Magnani and Sophia Loren . Forest Whitaker (pictured right), a reliab le character actor, could finally become a star once viewers get a look at his portrayal of Idi Amin in 60;The Last King of Scotland.61; Critics went crazy for veteran Peter O57;Toole57;s portrayal of an actor in 60;Venus,61; a role that could finally bring an Academy Award to the biggest loser in Oscar history. Brad Pitt , Cate Blanchett and some lesser-known co-stars have been lauded for their work in the hard-hitting drama about communication, 60;Babe (blogs.reuters.com....s/2006/09/)
At the directorâs behest, Cruz steeped herself in the â50s neo-realist melodramas that made the careers of Claudia Cardinale , Sophia Loren and Anna Magnani , all of whom she cites as career models, along with the usual Hollywood suspects â Meryl Streep , Julianne Moore , Nicole Kidman and, out of the blue , Debra Winger , which shows a promising taste for the wild side . Got up in cardigans , with her black hair piled atop her head like a wayward birdâs nest amid copious aerial shots of her deep cleavage and close-ups of her much-publicized padded ass in tight, tweedy skirts, Cruz is ravishingly hot-eyed and pouty. Not every Hollywood starlet would willingly be captured sitting on a toilet, sniffing through her perfectly flared nostrils and declaring, âIt smells of farts.â Cruz identifies very strongly with Raimunda. âShe survived a lot of horrible things that have made her stronger , and she still has hope,â she says. âWhat I love about her is that she refused to become a victim.â Like her character, Cruz describes herself as âextremely strong for some things, extremely sensitive for others,â and, looking at that face, at once tentative, headstrong and vulnerable, one doesnât doubt h (www.laweekly.com....her/14922/)
The book on which this film is based is a very thin volume, thin inevery department. As a matter of fact I gave up after a few pages. Thefilm is something else entirely. Meryl Streep plays an Italian livingin rural America and she is out of this world. Her opening scenes atthe breakfast table are staggeringly beautiful, it could have been asilent movie, we would've understood and live Francesca's story just bylooking into Meryl's beautiful face. Every laugh, every move, everynuance is so Italian and so real that I went to look up her backgroundto see if there was some Italian blood in her. Apparently not, but shereminded me of Anna Magnani and of my mother she's Italian too, so Ishould know. Clint Eastwood 's performance is tender, powerful andgenerous. I started going to the movies in the 70's and part of thefascination was to go and see movies with adults doing adult things,behaving and reacting to life the way adults do. Five Easy Pieces Coming Home Sophie's Choice and then the old great old ones from Sullivan's Travels to All About Eve As a side note I should informthe decision makers that on my second visit to the theater I took fivekids with me, two 17 year old boys and three girls, 18, 16 and 1 (us.imdb.com/title/tt0112579/)
Roberto Rossellini 's Open City contains characters so real and emotions sopowerful that it is not unusual for audiences to wonder whether the dramabeing played out on the screen is in truth a bona fide documentation ofevents surrounding the Italian Resistance during WWII. A study of theproduction history reveals that the film is closer to a combination of puredocumentation (most accounts will go into detail about the location shootingand the presence of real soldiers) and dramatic reconstruction of actualevents (like the execution of priest Don Morosini by the Nazis) with somelyrical filmmaking thrown in for good measure (I still get chills down myspine when I hear the children whistling in defiance of their oppressors).Anna Magnani , one of the greatest performers in the history of Italiancinema, is absolutely amazing in this film (www.imdb.com/title/tt0038890/)
A far more high-profile European film, Sony Pictures Classics'November release "Volver," directed by Pedro Almodovar, givesPenelope Cruz what might be her finest role to date. Italianneorealism meets 1940s Hollywood melodrama in Almodovar's vision ofa matriarchal world of alternative justice. Cruz brings asalt-of-the-earth vivaciousness to the film that recalls SophiaLoren and Anna Magnani long before the latter appears on acharacter's TV screen, in a scene from Luchino Visconti 's 1953 film"Bellissima." Cruz, co-star Carmen Maura and all the women of"Volver" clearly are objects of the director's affection (www.hollywoodreporter.com....529bf9148e)
A far more high-profile European film, Sony Pictures Classics' November release "Volver," directed by Pedro Almodovar, gives Penelope Cruz what might be her finest role to date. Italian neorealism meets 1940s Hollywood melodrama in Almodovar's vision of a matriarchal world of alternative justice. Cruz brings a salt-of-the-earth vivaciousness to the film that recalls Sophia Loren and Anna Magnani long before the latter appears on a character's TV screen, in a scene from Luchino Visconti 's 1953 film "Bellissima." Cruz, co-star Carmen Maura and all the women of "Volver" clearly are objects of the director's affectio (www.hollywoodreporter.com....529bf9148e)
What characterized Almodóvar films like "Law of Desire" and "Matador" was that their looniest moments were also their most heartfelt. In the pivotal scene of "Law of Desire," Carmen Maura , playing a transsexual actress, explains to her brother how, as a teenage boy, she had an affair with their father, became a woman to make the father happy after the two ran away together and was devastated when he finally left her. On the surface, it's an absurdist take on the moments of revelation in the kind of melodramatic soaps that Douglas Sirk made in the '50s. But on a deeper level, it has the desperate, naked heartbreak of an aria sung by Maria Callas or a scene by Anna Magnani : Maura's invincible strength comes from her willingness to lay herself open. (www.salon.com....flesh.html)
Italy 1951 Luchino Viscontis Bellissima focuses on a marginal fixture at Cinecitta studios: the ubiquitous stage mother. In this 1951 film, Anna Magnani wants stardom for her little girl and a better life for her small brood. In America , the stage mother is rarely shown as anything other than a selfish, conniving bitch who mercilessly exploits her offspring : the 1955 performance of Jo Van Fleet as Lillian Roths mother in Daniel Manns Ill Cry Tomorrow is a good example. But in Italy, with a director willing to examine the economic conditions which ignited stage mothers, stardom for children is shows as an escape from poverty for entire families. Anna Magnani s deep emotional understanding of her character lets her get away with sequences which few other actresses could inject with sympathy. Bellissima is marred by a moralistic and unbelievable conclusion which Luchino Visconti reportedly fought hard to resist. Like all of Magnanis films, however, Bellissima demands compulsive attention because of the riveting presence of its sta (www.shoestring.org....00280.html)
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